Jackie Black
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(eng) Jacqueline Ashley Casto writes as Jackie Black, Jacqueline Ashley and Jackie Casto.
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Casto, Jacqueline Ashley
- Andere Namen
- Black, Jackie
Ashley, Jacqueline
Casto, Jackie - Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Wohnorte
- Oklahoma, USA
Hawaii, USA
California, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Kurzbiographie
- Jacqueline Ashley Casto spent her first nineteen years in Oklahoma, USA and has lived in several places since then, including Hawaii, California, and Washington, D.C. Her love of romance novels eventually led to a career as writer. She wrote under the pennames of Jackie Black, Jacqueline Ashley and Jackie Casto from 1982 to 1992.
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- Jacqueline Ashley Casto writes as Jackie Black, Jacqueline Ashley and Jackie Casto.
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I believe the most correct adjective for this novel is “overwritten”. It’s filled with simile and easily has 3 times as many adjectives as any other sort of word. Despite all this description, the characters are flat and cliché, and the style of their romance, where a supposedly intelligent adult woman (who, coincidentally, appears more like a sixteen year old girl) is constantly helpless and stupefied whenever in the presence of the gorgeous, mustachioed man, seems more suited to a historical romance than something that is meant to be contemporary. Though this was probably more acceptable in 1984 when the book was published, I don’t think it will impress today’s readers over the age of thirteen. Sadly, the story is also less than interesting and the resolution of the plot employs a device which has lost its punch over the years as well.… (mehr)